As a state-level immigration enforcement measure failed in the Florida legislature, the measure’s opponents, from members of the business community to scholars and activists, repeatedly argued that a true fix can only come at the federal level — which is what President Barack Obama called for in a More…
Eight undocumented youth from around the country — including one from Michigan — have moved to shut down a major thoroughfare in Atlanta to protest state laws that ban enrollment in state universities by undocumented youth.
“We feel that the time for us to stand up has come. I am More…
Last week, The American Independent reported on a policy within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) “Project Gunrunner” program to let guns “walk”: that is, to encourage firearm sales to known gunrunners in the interest of following the guns back to the cartels that ordered their More…
President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderón announced a trade agreement Thursday, making good on an aspect of the 1994 NAFTA pact that has long been a point of contention between the U.S. and Mexico. Yet the announcement has had a mixed reception among those it will affect. Its More…
United States firearms officials will likely make changes to their efforts to stop firearms from reaching Mexican drug cartels after criticism from a Justice Department report released yesterday, CNN reports. The report indicates some successes: Authorities have intercepted more than 5,400 firearms and charged almost 800 defendants with More…
The Washington Post reports on the difficult situation the United States is in going into United Nations climate change talks in Cancun at the end of the month.
The atmosphere is very different from a year ago, when U.S. negotiators headed to Copenhagen touting the recent success of a
For the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, designating land as wilderness is pretty much like breathing. And so when the committee unanimously passed a bill to convert a swath of southern New Mexico into wilderness in July, people didn’t think much of it.
Until they did. Suddenly, advocates of More…
According to supporters of progressive immigration reform, not very well. A Republican-run House would put Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) in charge of the Judiciary Committee and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) atop its immigration subcommittee — meaning the two border security hawks would have a major say in all immigration-related legislation More…
The Guardian reports today that the BBC spent so much money covering the rescue of 33 Chilean miners this week that it will have to cut back on coverage of a number of important upcoming events.
One of the first items on the chopping block: key United Nations climate More…
Alan Bersin, the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, was asked a good question during a talk this afternoon hosted by the Migration Policy Insitute: Securing the border is his job, but what exactly does he consider a secure border?
It’s an interesting question, particularly given the debate over More…
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